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No. 426,419. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

JOHN T. SULLIVAN, OF IVESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ELMER IV.DICKERMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,419, dated April22, 1890.

Application filed October 21, 1889.- Serial No. 327,631. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN T. SULLIVAN, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at \Vestfield, in the county of Ilampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in IVhips, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the improvement in the construction ofWhips, the main purposes thereof being the provision of simple andinexpensive means for insuring a most desirable weighting, loading, andbalancing of the whip and for rendering the internal portions of thewhip proof against moisture.

In the accompanying drawings a whip constructed in accordance with thisinvention is illustrated as far as it is practicable to illustrate aninvention of this nature.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the greater part of the length of a whipwith outer parts removed in sections for better illustration. Fig. 2 isa view similar to Fig. 1, but on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 2, but showing a slightly-modified construction. Fig. 4is a very much enlarged cross-sectional View of the whip seen in Fig. 2,taken on the line 4 4 thereof. Fig. 5 is a very much enlargedcrosssectional view of the whip shown in Fig. 3, taken on the line 5 5thereof. I

In carrying out this invention in the manufacture of the improved whip,I form the whip, as usual, up to the stage of plaiting, employing acenter or core and sidings a, rounding the whip up into the desiredproportions, and I then subject the same, preferably for its entirelength, with a coating Z) of adhesive material, varnish being inpractice employed, and before the same becomes dry the varnished whip isrolled in a quantity of comminuted material, receiving thereon a layer(Z thereof, the material preferably employed being what is termedfloured iron, in which stuff the particles are somewhat finer thanordinary iron. filings. I may employ other material than floured iron,and will name as equivalents, either of which maybe employed, comminutedlead or other metal, ground corundum, emery, sand, and the like.

After one coating, substantially such as described, has been applied onthe whip and it should be found that the loading and balancing of thewhip is not exactly as required or desirable, another coating ofadhesive ma- 5 5 terial maybe applied, and upon that another layer ofthe coinminuted material may be affixed, the same being disposed as tothe length of the whip so as to lie upon a portion or portions or thewhole thereof, as the case may require.

In addition to the coating or coatings of commiuuted material, which isusually mineral, and, substantially as described, over the same, acoating f, of flock or shoddy, may be applied to give a yieldingresistance and good feeling to the whip, relieving the same from itsrigid characteristic and rendering but a single plaiting requisite ordesirable. The coating of flock is caused to adhere to the layer cl bycoating the outer surface of said layer with glue or varnish andapplying the flock before the glue or varnish has dried.

In Fig. 2, over the coating (Z of comminuted material are placed twolayers g g of plaiting, while in Fig. 3, in which the layer of flock fis shown as covering the said layer d, but one plaited covering is shownas provided.

The covering d, or the covering (1 together with the overlying one f, inaddition to the effects above named, protects the internal portions ofthe whip from the effects of moisture.

I/Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The combination, in a whip, of acentral core of usual construction, a coating of heavy comminut-edmaterial adhesively secured to said core, and a covering of braidsurrounding said comminuted material, substantially as described. 9

2. The combination,in a whip, of a central core, a layer of comminutedmaterial adhesively secured thereto, a coating of flock overlying saidcomminuted material, and a covering of braid overlying all,substantially as described.

JOHN T. SULLIVAN. Witnesses:

ELMER W. DIOKERMAN, WM. S. BELLoWs.

